Peace History Society

Peace & Change: Special Issue on the U.S. War in Iraq
Call for Reviewers / Call for Articles

Peace & Change, the scholarly journal of the Peace History Society and the Peace & Justice Studies Association, is compiling a special issue for mid-2009 which will consist largely of reviews of books and films on the Iraq War and related issues, as well as of some articles. We invite interested scholars and activists to volunteer to review selected books or films, and to submit articles, or proposals for articles.

Please consult the attached list of books and films still available for review, and choose one you would like to review, or choose two for a joint review. Send your name, academic affiliation (if any), and a brief c.v. of your academic background and publications to the book review editor for this special issue, Robert Shaffer of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, at roshaf@ship.edu. Assignments will be made based on a combination of past publications and "first come, first served." As your preferred book(s) or film(s) may already be assigned by the time you send in your notification, you may wish to rank in order of preference several books you would be interested in reviewing.

Your review should emphasize the importance of the book in evaluating U.S. policies in Iraq or related issues, and the usefulness of the book to students, the general public, the antiwar movement, and the critical scholarly community. Reviews for this special issue of Peace & Change have a 1500-word limit, or 2500 words for a joint review. The due date for reviews to be submitted will be January 1, 2009. A style sheet will be sent upon assignment of the review. Peace & Change will try to obtain review copies of all assigned books, but if you sign up to review a book, be prepared to obtain a copy on your own, at your expense, if necessary.

For those interested in submitting articles on the topic -- which could be historical perspectives, analyses of U.S. policy, analyses of the anti-war movement, or on related issues -- please also contact Robert Shaffer, with a 250-word proposal, and a brief c.v. Articles will be subject to peer review, and will be due December 1, 2008.

We look forward to your participation in this special issue, which we hope will be an important resource for historians, other peace and antiwar scholars, and antiwar activists in general.

Robert Shaffer
Associate Professor of History
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
717-477-1180
roshaf@ship.edu

8/20/08

List of Available Books for Review -- as of 8/20/08

Bacevich, Andrew. The Long War: A New History of National Security Policy Cince World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Bennis, Phyllis. Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis. New York: Olive Branch Press/Interlink, 2003.

Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq: The Former Director of the U.N. Inspection Commission Gives His Account the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Events Leading Up to America's Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

Bugliosi, Vincent. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. New York: Vanguard Press, 2008.

Carroll, James. Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.

Center for Public Integrity. The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War, at htpp://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard (Website review)

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Chomsky, Noam and David Barsamian. Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World. New York: Henry Holt/Metropolitan, 2005.

Cockburn, Patrick. The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. New York: Verso, 2007.

Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.

Danner, Mark. The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History. New York: New York Review of Books, 2006.

Diamond, Larry. Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Efforts to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books, 2005.

Drogin, Bob. Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007.

Fallows, James. Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq. New York: Vintage, 2006.

Freedman, Lawrence. A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

Gordon, Michael and Gen. Bernard Trainor. Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Gordon, Philip. Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World. New York: Times Books, 2007.

Hedges, Chris. Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians. New York: Nation Books, 2008.

Herring, Eric and Glen Rangwala. Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Hersh, Seymour. Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2004.

Hiro, Dilip. Secrets and Lies: Operation "Iraqi Freedom" and After. New York: Nation Books, 2004.

Hutto, Jonathan. Antiwar Soldier: How to Dissent Within the Ranks of the Military. New York: Nation Books, 2008.

Iraq Study Group. The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward -- A New Approach. New York: Vintage, 2006.

Jamail, Dahr. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007.

Key, Joshua. The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq. New York: Grove Press, 2007.

Khan, Mahvish Rukhsana. My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

Laufer, Peter. Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq. White River Junction, VT.: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2006.

Margulies, Joseph. Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Massing, Michael. Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.

Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. Doubleday, 2008.

Mejia, Camilo. Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia. New York: New Press, 2007.

Meyer, Christopher. D.C. Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War. London: Phoenix/Orion, 2006.

Meyer, Karl and Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.

Miller, T. Christian. Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. New York: Little, Brown, 2006.

Rashid, Ahmed. Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistant, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. New York: Viking, 2008.

Ricks, Thomas. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Rieckhoff, Paul. Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective. New American Library, 2007.

Risen, James. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Free Press, 2006.

Ritter, Scott. Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the U.N. and Overthrow Saddam Hussein. New York: Nation Books, 2006.

Roston, Aram. The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. New York: Nation Books, 2008.

Saar, Erik and Viveca Novak. Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. New York: Penguin, 2005.

Sands, Philippe. Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Scheuer, Michael. Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. New York: Free Press, 2008.

Senate (U.S.) Select Committee on Intelligence. Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence, June 5, 2008. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2008.

Shenon, Philip. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. Twelve Books, 2008.

Sokmen, Muge Gursoy, ed. World Tribunal on Iraq, with introductions by Arundhati Roy and Richard Falk. Northampton, MA.: Olive Branch Press/Interlink, 2007.

Smith, Clive Stafford. Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay. New York: Nation Books, 2007.

Springborg, Robert, ed. Oil and Democracy in Iraq. London: Saqi, 2007.

Stiglitz, Joseph, and Linda Bilmes. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.

Suskind, Ron. The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Wilson, Joseph. The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.

Wilson, Valerie Plame. Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Wright, Ann, ed. Dissent: Voices of Conscience--Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq. Kihei, Hawaii: Koa Books, 2008.

List of Films for Review

Documentaries:

The Ground Truth (Patricia Foulkrod, dir., 2006).

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (Robert Greenwald, dir., 2006).

Meeting Resistance (Steve Connors & Molly Bingham, dirs., 2007).

Redacted (Brian DePalma, dir., 2007).

Uncovered: The War on Iraq (Robert Greenwald, dir., 2004).

Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, dir., 2005).

Feature Films:

Extraordinary Rendition (James Threapleton, dir., 2007)

In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis, dir., 2007)

Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, dir., 2007)

Rendition ( Gavin Hood, dir., 2007)

Stop Loss (Kimberly Peirce, dir., 2008)

War, Inc. (Joshua Seftel, dir., 2008)